Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12
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The summer months bring little rest TO
the busy housewife, for like the provi-
dent bee she must lay by in store for the
coming winter still by using forethought
each day she may ease the strain upon
her overtaxed energies.
Nature teaches that the demands of the
appetite OF this season should be met by q
light diet composed principally Of fruits
and vegetables. Theiamily coGgregatlng
around the breakfast table will soon learn
to appreciate such simple dishes as oat-
meal, cracked wheat, and the homely, but
excellent cornmeal mush; little or no
meat is needed where good milk can be
procured. As an appetizer nothing is
better than dish Of fresh fruit tastefuliy
arranged. The nations IN topical regions
set Us good example in this, 8 glass of
milk and cup of chocolate being their only
food uGtil noon.
In the absence of fruit there is the ever
obtainable tomato, that sliced and served
with pounded ice sprinkled over the top
is extremely eppetizing 1t is impossible to
overestima.e the value of this vegetable;
cooked or uncooked it is an important
adjunct TO the table, and is whole
some for breakfast, dinner or lunch. The
many ways in which it can be cooked
recommend it, and a novice finds little
trouble il preparing from it 6 palatable
dish. One caution perhaps is needed:
This vegetable contains very strong
acid and should not be cooked in q tin
vessel, neither should the canned ores
remain in the can after it is opened.
The hot weather dinner is best thst is
made up most largely of vegetables.
Soups, not too rich, are admissible, but
! let the meats be light; for plain family
dinners they are least harmful when
served in stews with plenty of nutritious,
not oily gravy. Simple desserts are
certainly the rule, and if the housekeeper
cannot content herself with fruits and
must prepare something, let her show
her good sense by having light buildings
that can be made at breakfast time, and
set on ice until needed.
The third mea! Of the day,
| if there must be third one,
should be lighter than any.
Careful observation justifes the conclu-
sion that the less persons eat and drink
during the extreme hot weather the more
comfortable are they, and the liability to
| sickness is decreased.
OF course the necessary work of the
house has to go on in hot weather, but
| let the worn mother teke all the rest
possible. If she exercises wise fore
| thought there need be little or no sewing
done, and the rest she can arrange for,
and the quiet of home will do more for
her during the heated term than the med
racing to and fro on railroads in search
! Of change.
! 'Quiat home" suggests 8 word upon
thet topic. The want of quiet in the
home has much to do with the nervous
condition OF msuY women. They
do no. appreciate how much IN
necessary noise is made in
the work of the house. Careless servants
| and children make home life burden by
the unnecessary rafting of dishes, slam
ming doors snd other nerve-startling
noises which are not only distracting to
the inmates, but have a baneful effect
upon the noise makers themselves. The
quiet people OF the world are the true
workers; words are not the only thing4
full of sound and fury that signify notta
ing. Quiet, systematic labor is what Is
most needed in all homes and
should enter into the trainiA Of